On a somewhat-related matter, for those who still have excess time on their
hands as we await the delayed start of the ski season:
1. place ski on flat surface
2. put boot in binding
3. decamber ski
4. mark where tip starts to turn up away from floor
5. ditto for tail
6. mark center of these two points (i.e., center of running length)
7. unbuckling boots, stick finger inside, and locate the depression in your
footbed that corresponds with the ball-of-foot (bof)
8. mark outside of boot shell that corresponds w/ 7
9. given the obvious measurement difficulties, how closely does 6
correspond w/ 8?
Peter Keelty (www.techsupportforskiers.com) sez all those in-the-know still
use bof mounting. For my mid-fats, I was pretty close. For my Atomic race
skis, I was significantly behind, even after sliding the Atomic bindings
forward, and even after repositioning the bindings on my gs skis to use the
further-ahead set of holes (intended for larger boot soles). But for my
wife's setup, even though the boot mid-sole matched up w/ the printed
center mark on the ski, her ball-of-foot was several cm behind the running
length cntr.
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